Happy Mother’s Day

I hope you have a lovely Mother’s  Day

I hope you like the card and flowers I made for you.

from Dylan,

from Aiden,

from Caitlin,

from Cody,

from Liam

from Jamie

We have been busy in Class 2 this week. You can read about it later, just now enjoy your day.

Class 2 have been very busy this week working on adverbs (which we now know is a word used to describe actions). Liam and Cody came up with some good adverbs – carefully, skilfully and quietly. We have also been working really well in maths, filling in the missing numbers which we are getting really good at. We are finding different ways of working out the missing numbers. Our Out and About was very interesting this week. At the bank we got to see where all the money is kept. Ssh it’s a secret we can’t tell you where but have a careful look at the photos we took.

Aiden:

I have been doing very hard work this week. This week I went Out and About to the bank. I learnt how to use a bank card – “Now I know how to use a bank card”. I went to PE with my P4 class on Monday and we played a game called castles – which is about dodging and thinking and knocking the other team’s castle down. We also did our health jotters. I went to PE on Tuesday as well with Class 2 and we played Cat and Mouse. I also went swimming on Thursday where I did some good swimming. We had Home Learning this week and we had some maths questions. I found these very easy.

Cody:

This week I have enjoyed breakfast club and I sat next to Archie who is my friend from my P3 class. With Miss. Waddell this week I learnt about adverbs which describe how we do something. You can sing – slowly, quietly or loudly. Maths jobs this week were easy and had simple answers. Some of the questions were 4 + 4, I know this makes 8. PE was good this week with Mr. Jeffries, we were practising our balancing skills. We also did a Sports Relief activity in the hall where we ran round the hall 10 times. I passed quite a few people. I enjoyed this.

Caitlin:

I have found the missing letters in my Reading this week. On Thursday we ran around the hall for Sports Relief – I ran some then walked some as I was out of breath. I got a sticker from Miss. Cameron at swimming because I was swimming well. The sticker smelt of mint. I worked with Dylan at PE to practise balancing. We had to walk around a curvy line with a bean bag on our head. On Friday we went to the Sports Relief Bake Sale where I got 3 cakes and 1 of these was a chocolate cake. It was “yummy”.

Dylan:

I have been doing some great jobs this week. Doing maths jobs on the ipad. With Mrs. Clark I have been learning about missing numbers and how to work out what they are. Sports Relief Bake Sale was on Friday and I bought a big chocolate cake, a rice krispie cake and a cake with 3 marshmallows on the top. I had the chocolate cake for snack. I made a video of all the school bells this week with Miss. Waddell then I watched it at choose time. I also did a word search for reading. It was easy. At Out and About we went to the bank and the lady was really nice and gave us our own cash box to keep at home, it even has a cash card in it.

Liam – On Tuesday we went to Lana’s cafe. I liked the Airforce hand-dryer. It is black with black and red writing. I had juice in a pink bottle at the cafe. I had a pink cake with sweeties on it but I didn’t like it. Airforce is fast and noisy. I was sitting with Miss.Waddell and Mrs. Clark at the cafe. I like hand-dryers.

Aiden – This week at PE we went outside with Mr.Jeffries, Mrs. Clark and Miss. Waddell. We played Buildy Tig, Bathroom Tig and Mind Reader. Mind Reader is a game when you need to think about something like Minecraft, cars or fruits. Then the rest of the people have to guess what they are thinking about. If they guess correctly the two people have a race. It was good fun.

Caitlin – Class 2 went to Lana’s cafe. I chose toast and a cup of tea. The tea had sugar and milk in it. I liked going to the cafe it was fun at the cafe. I liked playing Toilet Tig at playtime this week. The noun game I played on the computer with Miss. Waddell was okay – we had to say if the noun was a thing, person or a place.

Dylan – I liked going to Lana’s cafe. I looked at the menu and asked Lana for a cup of tea and a jam roll. I want to go back with my mum and buy her a morning roll.
I used the special highlighter to find the nouns with Mrs Clark. I was good at it. I found the nouns Dipper and dolphin.

Cody – I have been doing some work and some fun stuff at school this week. I have been doing maths and learning about nouns, nouns are naming words. I have been doing maths in my integration class this week. On Tuesday we went to Lana’s tea-room which is a cafe near the school. I had a drink when I was there. It was fun at the cafe and Aiden had tea for his drink.

This week looked at  mental maths strategy. We practised number doubles. Knowing number doubles can help us get fast at maths. We played a card game. We had to pick a card then double the number. Snakes and ladders was fast this week because we doubled each dice number. This made the game twice as fast. Jamie won the game. We all had fun.
Class 2 learned about compound words. We got so good at making compound words that by Friday we knew lots we could paint. We  had fun guessing our friends words. Compound words are when we put two small words together to make a new word. example light+house=lighthouse
Our new topic is called Being Cool in School. Lesson 1 helped us to understand that everyone has feelings. We can respond to these feelings in different ways.
Jamie: Art is starting to get really good.
Aiden: I am good at doing good behaviour.

Dylan: Class 1 are learning about Scotland. I was able to tell them interesting facts about Robert Burns because Class 2 found out facts last term. It is good to pass on learning.

In Class 2 we have a new pupil. He is called Jamie. He likes Minecraft PVZ.

This week we had Get Together in Class 2. Jamie knows our welcome song.  He sang it at his previous school. He did not know the actions but thinks it will not be long till he learn it.

Mr Jeffries’  P.E. lesson was outdoors this week. We had a new activity called kick cricket. We were getting quite good at it.

Writing this week we had to choose a favourite place in Scotland. The place had to be in Scotland because we are learning more about Scotland. We wrote about:

Jamie: KFC

Cody : the swing park

Caitlin : the swimming pool

Liam: M&D’s

Dylan:Glasgow Subway

Mrs Clark: Stirling Castle

For our Homelearning this week we each got a link to help us learn our multiplication tables

http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/multiply_by_two_easy_thing_to_do.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzVyBQ5uTbo

Jamie: I have enjoyed my first week at Balbardie.

Aiden and Cody : We worked together to make a large scone which we will share.

Caitlin : I don’t believe it. I got the Assembly Certificate. I got the certificate for trying hard to write a story about my favourite place in Scotland. I sounded out the words I did not know.

Liam: Plop is an owl. He likes the fireworks.

Dylan: Did you know that the subway trains in Glasgow make the same noise each time they close the doors?

In class 2 we have been practising our reading. Mrs Clark is very proud of us. Some of class 2 have linked repeated addition with multiplication. This means that 5+5+5+5 is the same as 4 x5.  When class 2 went to the sensory room it was like going under the sea because it was now Hector’s World. Hector’s World is where we are learning about being safe on the Internet.

Caitlin said “Hector’s World is awesome.  You should see it”

Liam liked going through the underground cave and wearing his Hector’s hat.

Aiden said “I liked the challenge to create a safe password to use on the Internet but I can’t tell you what it is because that not safe.”

The Fun goes on in Class 2. Thank you to everyone who responded to last weeks Class 2 blog.           Hands up if you thought things could not get better. Well this is Balbardie, things can and they often do.      Here at Balbardie we know that learning is fun and sometimes strange. Strange in the nicest possible way.

Babies come to school.

Taxi drivers come to visit.

Monsters come to birthday picnics

  Teachers wear onesies (but not every day)

Just for the onesies walk. The onesies walk was to raise awareness of walking   

                                                      in West Lothian

Class 2 had fun looking at photographs of our learning this week. On Thursday we went swimming . It was our first swimming this term. Aiden said “It was great”. Friday was party day. It was a party for Miss Robertsons’ birthday. Guess what age she is now. Class 2 had fun playing party games. We were happy when our friends won musical chairs and musical statues. Dylan said “I don’t mind not winning, party games are still fun.”

Class 2 are pleased to be back. It is nice to see our friends again and to continue our learning. It is not surprising Mrs Clark and Miss Robertson are so tired as we have managed to do so much in just 4 days! We went to the 1st Get Together of the session on Wednesday. After that we had PE with Mr Jeffries.  At PE we had to try hard not to fall in the jungle or dessert island as we skipped, hopped and ran around the PE hall. We will get PE each Wednesday. Swimming was not on this week so we learned to play croquet, had a turn on the Trim Trail, then played WII sports. We are enjoying encouraging each other to do our best. We have designed and made a new display for the Golden Wall to record our positive behavior.